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Help Save the RWI Human Rights Library Today!

We've now launched a crowdfunding campaign - and we need your support!

While we wait for a formal decision from the Swedish Government in response to our appeal for public funding, we're turning to our friends, partners, and alumni around the world. Help us keep our Library open and ensure that we can continue our Research and Education activities!

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library has been an essential foundation for the Institute’s work. The library holds one of the largest collections of literature on human rights and humanitarian law in Europe and is the only human rights library in Sweden. It has been the mainstay for countless students, faculty, visiting researchers, and practitioners of human rights around the world.

Without adequate and long-term financial resources to sustain its operations, RWI is unable to keep the library's doors open beyond 2025. We need your support urgently. Please make a contribution today by clicking "Donate".

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Promoting Human Rights Worldwide

We are a research and academic institution that works to promote and advance human rights through knowledge. Since 1984, our mission is to promote universal respect for human rights and humanitarian law. We carry out multi-disciplinary human rights research, provide academic education, support, and advice.

The institute is named after Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II.

What we do

Multi Disciplinary Research

We provide cutting edge and policy-oriented research and analysis to see and understand core human rights issues.

Human Rights Africa

Direct Engagement: International Programmes

We engage directly in the implementation of human rights together with our partners around the world to improve the practical application of human rights.

The 2015 class from the International Human Rights Law Master Programme at Lund University and Raoul Wallenberg Institute

Higher Education

We educate and equip decision-makers with the tools they need to address the major human rights challenges of today and tomorrow.

Human Rights Discourse & Outreach

We bring together policy-makers, experts and civil society to engage in solution-oriented dialogue to advance human rights. Together we bring about change.

What we do

Human Rights Research & Analysis

We provide cutting edge and policy-oriented research and analysis to see and understand core human rights issues.

Human Rights Africa

Direct Engagement

We engage directly in the implementation of human rights together with our partners around the world to improve the practical application of human rights.

The 2015 class from the International Human Rights Law Master Programme at Lund University and Raoul Wallenberg Institute

Human Rights Education

We educate and equip decision-makers with the tools they need to address the major human rights challenges of today and tomorrow.

Human Rights Forums

We bring together policy-makers, experts and civil society to engage in solution-oriented dialogue to advance human rights. Together we bring about change.

Our focus areas

  • Human Rights and the Environment

    Climate change is a threat to human rights. We are engaged in a number of initiatives on human rights and environment.

  • Rule of Law and Access to Justice

    This is an important ongoing process, in which partner countries, partner institutions and methods will be assessed regularly.

  • Business and Human Rights

    There is a need for integrated solutions and collective action that create synergies between human rights and environmental sustainability.

  • International Humanitarian Law

    As an independent academic institution, we approach International Humanitarian Law from a non-partisan stance.

  • Non-Discrimination and Inclusion (cross-cutting area)

    We work to ensure that societies are open and inclusive to all.

Learn about Human Rights: Check out our online courses

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